Overview
One card for all DV and analogue video editing.
Grass Valley ACEDVio is the world’s only card to feature analog and DV input/output with native open standard OHCI support for all popular video cameras and decks including: VHS, S-VHS, Hi-8, Digital8, DV and DVCAM (PAL and NTSC).
One card for any computer.
Grass Valley ACEDVio is designed to work with both Windows and Mac OS computers. Easy one-card installation requires no additional software drivers.
One card for any editing application.
Grass Valley ACEDVio is ready to edit on any computer and with any OHCI compatible edit application. Here is a short list of some compatible editing applications:Final Cut Pro, Xpress DV, Premiere, Vegas, Edition, MediaStudio Pro, Windows Movie Maker.
One card with the world’s best analog and DV technology.
At the heart of the ACEDVio is Grass Valley's proprietary DV CODEC chip providing the industry's best picture quality preservation and locked audio support during analog-to-DV conversion and capture. Locked audio ensures perfect audio and video synchronization at all times.
One card with the broadest compatibility, longest product life and highest return on investment.
When it comes to analog and DV editing, only Grass Valley ACEDVio provides multi-platform compatibility with an open standard OHCI/ FireWire interface. OHCI provides the broadest editing software support ensuring a long product life and high return on investment.
The Current OHCI Situation in Video.
Traditionally there have been two distinct categories of video editing solutions:
- Proprietary editing cards designed specifically for video editing. These are feature packed with real time video processing capabilities like Matrox's RT.X2.
- Standard OHCI cards or onboard ports which are inexpensive and widely used for DV (digital video) editing.
Standard OHCI
OHCI solutions are suitable for a wide variety of applications. They offer cross-platform OS compatibility (PC and Mac), DV camera device control as well as compatibility with a wide range of editing software applications. However OHCI has never provided compatibility or connectivity with widely used analogue video equipment and formats including S/VHS and Hi-8.
OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) is a digital transfer protocol allowing vendors of hardware devices and software programs, to communicate and plug into an open standard interface. OHCI devices include hard disk drives, scanners, printers and MP3 players. OHCI eliminates the need for specific device drivers for every product and the possible instability of such drivers. The initial problem with OHCI was the stability of this protocol particularly for DV editing. This stability issue has improved dramatically in the past few years and will continue to improve as this standard is developed further.
In short, OHCI is a standard protocol suitable for bi-directionally digital data transfer (i.e. DV) between a camera and the computer system. OHCI does not assist in processing the video once it has been captured.
How does ACEDVio enhance the function of the OHCI card?
ACEDVio takes the traditional functionality of OHCI boards and enhances this with Grass Valley’s traditional strengths in superior analog-to-DV and DV-to-analog video conversion.
ACEDVio features composite and y/c (analogue video) input and output capability (io).
- The analogue in (i) adds the versatility of converting analog video to DV, using the industry’s highest quality conversion technology. No other OHCI card can offer this.
- The analog output capability (O) of the ACEDVio allows output of DV back to analog video equipment as well as providing editors with a real time video preview to a TV or monitor while editing. Grass Valley is the only company with the expertise to bring analog output to this class of PCI board (OHCI).
- ACEDVIO together with Sony's Vegas or with Apple’s Final Cut Pro offers realtime analog video preview functionality not available on any other OHCI card.
- Almost all other OHCI vendors have no experience in video where Grass Valley provides technical support from both a video and OHCI perspective.
- ACEDVio combines the shear versatility and compatibility of OHCI with Grass Valley’s years of high-end video experience to deliver a reliable, real world solution for hobbyists and video professional alike.
Key Features
Whether it's a Windows or Mac OS computer, VHS or DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Xpress DV, Premiere or Vegas editing software, Grass Valley ACEDVio is the one card for all editing environments providing the broadest compatibility, longest product life and highest return on investment.
- Provides analog and DV input/output compatibility for leading editing and DVD authoring applications.
- Connects to all widely used analog and DV cameras and decks.
- Compatible with Windows and Mac OS computers.
- Provides the industry's highest quality analog-to-DV and DV-to-analog video conversion with locked audio support.
- Provides video output to a monitor or television while editing.
- Features adjustable brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness controls on analog video input*.
- The broadest editing software support and video equipment compatibility ensures a longer product life and a high return on investment.
*Included control software for Windows only.
